Stephen T. Newmyer, Professor of Classics

Recent Scholarship

Published a book entitled Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook, November 2010 by Routledge, Oxford, England.

Delivered the paper “The Sense of Shame in Animals: Some Ancient and Modern Views,” at the Celtic Conference in Classics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July 29, 2010.

 

Delivered the paper “Beasts at the Banquet: Animals in Plutarch’s Convivium Septem Sapientium,” at the meeting of the Classical Association of Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 13, 2009.

 

Published the book chapter entitled “The Human Soul and the Animal Soul: Stoic Theory and Its Survival in Contractualist Ethics,” in the volume Mensch und Tier in der Antike—Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung, ed. by Annetta Alexandridis,Markus Wild, and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček (Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008), pp. 71-80.

 

Published the article “Calculating Creatures: Ancients and Moderns on Understanding of Number in Animals,” in Quaderni Urbinati de Cultura Classica, N. S. 89, 2 (Vol. 118) (2008), pp. 117-124.

 

Delivered the paper “Animal Philanthropia in the Convivium Septem Sapientium,” at the Eighth Congress of the International Plutarch Society on “Symposion and Philanthropia in Plutarch,” in Coimbra, Portugal, September 26, 2008.

 

Was co-awarded a Choice 2008 Academic Title Award for the volume A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity, ed. by Linda Kalof  (Oxford: Berg, 2007), to which he contributed a chapter.

 

Reviewed a book entitled Animals, Gods and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Christian Ideas by Ingvild Saelid Gilhus (London: Routledge, 1006), in the New England Classical Journal (May 2007, pp. 103-107).

 

Published a book entitled Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics, January 2006 by Routledge, Oxford, England.